Painterly Happenings

This first painting was done recently in my developing design class. We were supposed to try using a different color palette than we normally would and do something from our imagination. I wasn't feeling particularly imaginative that day so I played 'adjective, adjective, noun'. It's a game that they play in the kids class where they pick 2 adjectives and a noun out of two empty yogurt containers and then the kids would have to draw whatever was picked out. I happened to pick quiet, muddy and pizza. This is what I came up with...

The second painting I did a while ago while waiting for a portfolio review in my painting class. It was of a drawing that I had in my sketchbook. I call it, 'Wiggly Legged Fiend.'

Modeling a Portrait Head

I took a modeling and casting a portrait head class last term where we had to make a sculpture of a head from a model and then create a mold for it to cast it in wax. The first couple of classes were spent filling out the basic shapes and forms of the head. We ran out of the darker plasticine after my head was 'bulked out' and so I had to use a lighter color to actually create the face and rest of the head on top of the darker stuff. Mine started to look quite a bit like a Mrs. Doubtfire facial mask so I made it some eye cucumbers...

My head then decided to join Cirque du Soleil.


We had the model in for one last class when we were close to being done the modeling part of the class to make sure that we had the correct measurements for the different parts of the face. Mine looked like the model from certain angles, but also looked a bit like Christopher Walken. Especially when viewed looking down at the forehead... I thought that it needed a little something extra so I made it a monocle and some tiny hands to hold it.